Congenital Chagas disease as an ecological model of interactions between Trypanosoma cruzi parasites, pregnant women, placenta and fetuses

Acta Tropica

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 103-115

  Carlier, Yves ^a   Truyens, Carine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital Chagas disease; Congenital T. cruzi infection; Maternal and fetal neonatal immuneresponses; Maternal fetal transmission; Placenta; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETUS; HEREDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PATHOGENESIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; REPRODUCTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ADULT; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ECOLOGY; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MIDDLE AGED; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949626842     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.07.016     Document Type: Article

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